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“Toilet paper is a right, not a privilege,”
― John Ringo, Under a Graveyard Sky

“extreme zombie fighting” kit. Tactical boots and tacticals. Firefighting bunker gear. Nomex head cover tucked under the collar of the bunker gear. Full face respirator. Helmet with integrated visor. Body armor with integral MOLLE. Knee, elbow and shin guards. Nitrile gloves. Tactical gloves. Rubber gloves. Assault pack with hydration unit. Saiga shotgun on friction strap rig. A .45 USP in tactical fast-draw holster. Two .45 USP in chest holsters. Fourteen Saiga ten-round 12-gauge magazines plus one in the weapon. Nine pistol magazines in holster plus three in weapons. Kukri in waist sheath. Machete in over-shoulder sheath, right. Halligan tool in over-shoulder sheath, left. Tactical knife in chest sheath. Tactical knife in waist sheath. Bowie knife in thigh sheath. Calf tactical knife times two. A few clasp knives dangling in various places. There was the head of a teddy bear peeking out of her assault pack.”
― John Ringo, Under a Graveyard Sky

“There is a god somewhere that is angry because we’re combining stuff like Cutty Sark with fifty-year-old Laphroaig,”
― John Ringo, To Sail a Darkling Sea

“You’re all so spoiled you think a measly meter or so of snow is a blizzard!”
― Anonymous

“He had spent a lot of time thinking about himself, and had come to the conclusion that he was definitely not self-absorbed.”
― Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard

“War was a democracy, he knew.  The enemy got a vote too.”
― Christopher Nuttall, Ark Royal

“The Commonwealth—humanity—is in deep shit, and we’re the people with the shovels.”
― Marko Kloos, Lines of Departure

“The places paleontologists looked for fossils and how those fossils have been interpreted have been influenced by politics and culture, reminding us that while there is a reality that science allows us to approach the process of science is a human endeavor.”
― Brian Switek, Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature

“I found that this was a desert region so obscure that the designers of atlases typically stitch page bindings directly over that very latitude and longitude, obliterating the map’s topography as surely as any sandstorm.”
― Adrienne Mayor, The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

“Distinguishing the first true birds from their feathered dinosaur relations has become increasingly difficult. If we define birds as warm-blooded, feathered, bipedal animals that lay eggs, then many coelurosaurs are birds, so we have to take another approach.”
― Brian Switek, Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature

“A weed doesn’t care if it is beautiful or not. It only cares that it survives.”
― Catherine Beery, Cadet

“I do not follow God's will in fear of punishment, or even in hope of reward. I follow God's will, as I understand it, because I love God, and want to make Him happy.”
― Anonymous

“Torstensson perked right up. "What is a colonoscopy?" he asked. "And how soon could we have one deployed against the Ostenders?”
― Anonymous

“You wouldn’t like horses. They smell funny. They have bad attitudes. They’re lazy. They don’t bite their riders’ arms off or flame people they don’t like. Like I said, they’re lazy. Anyone with ambition tries to flame their enemies from time to time. Besides, they eat grass. Grass! It’s incredibly gross.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dusk Covenant

“I’m always right. It’s exhausting.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Message

“For me, meeting new people was generally an unfortunate necessity, not an interest. Anabelle Farren might have actually been an exception for me, if I hadn’t been absolutely confident that she — or Nakht — was about fifty percent likely to obliterate me if I said the wrong thing. That sort of thing made it hard for me to be enthusiastic,”
― Andrew Rowe, The Torch that Ignites the Stars

“Immortality.” “Yes.” “True immortality.” “Yeah. You’ll outlive the sun. We can have a sandwich to celebrate.”
― Shirtaloon, He Who Fights with Monsters: Book Twelve